Setting Up Web Services on OS X Server
With Server.app up and running, DNS configured, and a plan in place for locking down access to the default site when it becomes visible, it’s time to enable web services.
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Password Protecting Directories, Files or Whole Domains via a Web App
By leveraging OS X’s built-in user and group management architecture and Apache’s standard digest authentication, you can easily protect directories, files or whole domains — without ever touching a domain-specific password file. Here’s one way to do it via .htaccess or .conf files, as well as via a web app that can be switched on or off with a single checkbox in Server.app.
At Last — Firing Up OS X Server
Earlier articles in this series covered some useful preliminaries for getting the best out of OS X Server; with those out of the way, at last it’s time to fire it up. Smooth, fast, and hassle-free hosting of multiple virtual hosts on OS X Server is right around the corner.
Automating Backups of Your MySQL Databases via Minimal Mysqldump Privileges
Now that MySQL is set up and configured on OS X Server, here’s how to ensure that databases are regularly backed up — while granting to the backup script only the minimal privileges needed for mysqldump.
Installing, Configuring and Performance Tweaking MySQL for OS X Server
Installing MySQL for OS X is mostly straightforward, but taking a minute to complete a few extra steps of configuration will help keep your server more secure and can vastly improve performance.
Enabling OS X TRIM Support for Non-Apple SSDs
To my mind, it seems like a no-brainer to opt for a single solid state drive paired with a single spinning drive in a Mac Mini server. Doing that, however, means installing a non-Apple SSD, and that means jumping through a few extra hoops to get TRIM support from OS X.
Enabling WordPress to Work with SSH2 Upgrades — Without Extravagant Permissions
Part of getting your OS X-based server set up for delivering real websites may involve preparing in advance to support SSH2 upgrades for WordPress. Run-throughs for this process are all over the place, but they almost always involve unnecessarily extravagant permissions on private encryption keys.